Gilad Efrat

Efrat's works consistently examine the systems of mutual relationships between painting and photography and focuses on questions of consciousness – both the universal and the very local one.

From the very beginning of his artistic career in the 1990's, Gilad Efrat dealt with the historical and political complexity of the landscape, while developing his unique painting. Using a method based on subtraction - "wiping" color layers - Efrat creates "archaeological layers" of erasing the image and its discovery. Most of his paintings are based on photographic images, mostly anonymous.

Gilad Efrat lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Education

1991-95 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem1994 Cooper Union Academy of Art and Science, New York, USA1997 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, studied for M.F.A,2004 one year of Core Program, Houston, Texas, USA